* -Waddress warning in ldelf.c
@ 2021-10-21 11:38 Alan Modra
2021-12-31 15:56 ` H.J. Lu
0 siblings, 1 reply; 2+ messages in thread
From: Alan Modra @ 2021-10-21 11:38 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: binutils
ldelf.c: In function ‘ldelf_after_open’:
ldelf.c:1049:43: warning: the comparison will always evaluate as ‘true’ for the address of ‘elf_header’ will never be NULL [-Waddress]
1049 | && elf_tdata (abfd)->elf_header != NULL
| ^~
In file included from ldelf.c:37:
../bfd/elf-bfd.h:1957:21: note: ‘elf_header’ declared here
1957 | Elf_Internal_Ehdr elf_header[1]; /* Actual data, but ref like ptr */
* ldelf.c (ldelf_after_open): Remove useless elf_header test.
diff --git a/ld/ldelf.c b/ld/ldelf.c
index 21e655bb55c..0c39eb6024f 100644
--- a/ld/ldelf.c
+++ b/ld/ldelf.c
@@ -1046,7 +1046,6 @@ ldelf_after_open (int use_libpath, int native, int is_linux, int is_freebsd,
if (abfd->xvec->flavour == bfd_target_elf_flavour
&& !bfd_input_just_syms (abfd)
&& elf_tdata (abfd) != NULL
- && elf_tdata (abfd)->elf_header != NULL
/* FIXME: Maybe check for other non-supportable types as well ? */
&& (elf_tdata (abfd)->elf_header->e_type == ET_EXEC
|| (elf_tdata (abfd)->elf_header->e_type == ET_DYN
--
Alan Modra
Australia Development Lab, IBM
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* Re: -Waddress warning in ldelf.c
2021-10-21 11:38 -Waddress warning in ldelf.c Alan Modra
@ 2021-12-31 15:56 ` H.J. Lu
0 siblings, 0 replies; 2+ messages in thread
From: H.J. Lu @ 2021-12-31 15:56 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: Alan Modra, Paul Zimmermann, Nick Clifton; +Cc: Binutils
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On Thu, Oct 21, 2021 at 4:39 AM Alan Modra via Binutils
<binutils@sourceware.org> wrote:
>
> ldelf.c: In function ‘ldelf_after_open’:
> ldelf.c:1049:43: warning: the comparison will always evaluate as ‘true’ for the address of ‘elf_header’ will never be NULL [-Waddress]
> 1049 | && elf_tdata (abfd)->elf_header != NULL
> | ^~
> In file included from ldelf.c:37:
> ../bfd/elf-bfd.h:1957:21: note: ‘elf_header’ declared here
> 1957 | Elf_Internal_Ehdr elf_header[1]; /* Actual data, but ref like ptr */
>
> * ldelf.c (ldelf_after_open): Remove useless elf_header test.
>
> diff --git a/ld/ldelf.c b/ld/ldelf.c
> index 21e655bb55c..0c39eb6024f 100644
> --- a/ld/ldelf.c
> +++ b/ld/ldelf.c
> @@ -1046,7 +1046,6 @@ ldelf_after_open (int use_libpath, int native, int is_linux, int is_freebsd,
> if (abfd->xvec->flavour == bfd_target_elf_flavour
> && !bfd_input_just_syms (abfd)
> && elf_tdata (abfd) != NULL
> - && elf_tdata (abfd)->elf_header != NULL
> /* FIXME: Maybe check for other non-supportable types as well ? */
> && (elf_tdata (abfd)->elf_header->e_type == ET_EXEC
> || (elf_tdata (abfd)->elf_header->e_type == ET_DYN
>
> --
> Alan Modra
> Australia Development Lab, IBM
I am backporting this to 2.37 branch for:
https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=28734
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H.J.
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From c912b88e003a43e10020f56675fbd7e180d255ab Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Alan Modra <amodra@gmail.com>
Date: Thu, 21 Oct 2021 19:18:34 +1030
Subject: [PATCH] -Waddress warning in ldelf.c
ldelf.c: In function 'ldelf_after_open':
ldelf.c:1049:43: warning: the comparison will always evaluate as 'true' for the address of 'elf_header' will never be NULL [-Waddress]
1049 | && elf_tdata (abfd)->elf_header != NULL
| ^~
In file included from ldelf.c:37:
../bfd/elf-bfd.h:1957:21: note: 'elf_header' declared here
1957 | Elf_Internal_Ehdr elf_header[1]; /* Actual data, but ref like ptr */
PR ld/28734
* ldelf.c (ldelf_after_open): Remove useless elf_header test.
(cherry picked from commit ced10cb78d01652f9e1bb1d1e465327dfe1debaa)
---
ld/ldelf.c | 1 -
1 file changed, 1 deletion(-)
diff --git a/ld/ldelf.c b/ld/ldelf.c
index 21e655bb55c..0c39eb6024f 100644
--- a/ld/ldelf.c
+++ b/ld/ldelf.c
@@ -1046,7 +1046,6 @@ ldelf_after_open (int use_libpath, int native, int is_linux, int is_freebsd,
if (abfd->xvec->flavour == bfd_target_elf_flavour
&& !bfd_input_just_syms (abfd)
&& elf_tdata (abfd) != NULL
- && elf_tdata (abfd)->elf_header != NULL
/* FIXME: Maybe check for other non-supportable types as well ? */
&& (elf_tdata (abfd)->elf_header->e_type == ET_EXEC
|| (elf_tdata (abfd)->elf_header->e_type == ET_DYN
--
2.33.1
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